RUNNING OUT OF TIME

BY JAMES LOWMAN
(INT. THERAPY ROOM)

The title card fades in with the faint sound of the rain
transitioning to a lighter rainfall on the side of the window.
Mike a 16-year-old boy wearing very baggy clothes and with
little emotion on his face is sat facing the therapist in a
dark room.
EARFQUAKE STARTS PLAYING BY TYLER THE CREATOR IN THE
BACKGROUND.
Therapist
Tell me mike how did it all start

(EXT RIVERSIDE MIDDAY – HENLEY ON THAMES)

MIKE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND RUBY WHO SHOWS VERY LITTLE EMOTION ARE
WALKING ALONG THE RIVERSIDE WHILST MIKE IS TALKING ABOUT THEIR
FUTURE TOGETHER.

MIKE
MATE YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW EXITED I AM TO GET OUT OF
COLLEGE SO WE CAN FINALLY GET AWAY TOGETHER AND HAVE THE
FUTURE WE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT.
RUBY HEARING MIKE TALK ABOUT THIS SHOWS NO HAPPINESS OR JOY
THR SAME WAY MIKE DOES THINKING ABOUT THEIR FUTURE.

RUBY
IT SOUNDS GREAT MIKE, I JUST DON’T THINK WE SHOULD LOOK SO FAR
INTO THE FUTURE AT THE MOMENT AND JUST TAKE EVERYDAY AS IT
COMES.

MIKE DOESN’T REGONISE RUBYS BAD MORE AND THEY CARRY ON WITH
THERE WALK AS IF EVERYTHING IS GOING OKAY.

(EXT HIGHSTREET MIDDAY)

MIKE AND RUBY ARE GETTING READDY TO GO HOME NOW. RUBY STILL
DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE AND JOY TO HER AS MIKE WAS STILL TALKING
ABOUT THEIR FUTURE TOGETHER SO IT SEEMS SHE WANTS TO LEAVE
VERY SWIFTLY.
 RUBY
SEE YOU LATER MIKE

MIKE HAS A LOOK OF CONFUSION ON HIS FACE AS RUBY DOESN’T OFTEN

CALL HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME.

MIKE
CALL ME WHEN YOU GET HOME?

RUBY
YEAH MAYBE ILL SEE IF IM FEELING UP FOR IT WHEN IM HOME.

MIKE THEN GOES IN FOR A HUG WITH RUBY BUT SHE SEEMS VERY PUT
OFF BY THE IDEA AND SEEMS VERY TENSE.

(EXT – HIGHSTREET NIGHT)

MIKE HAS NOW GONE OUT FOR A SMOKE AS HE DOES MOST NIGHT TO
OVOID DEALING WITH WHATEVERS GOING ON AT HOME UNTIL HE GETS A
SUDDEN TEXT FROM RUBY AFTER NOT GETTING A CALL FROM HER AFTER
THEY LEFT EARLIER.

RUBY TEXT MESSAGE

MIKE IVE DECIDE IT WOULD BE BEST IF WE JUST GO OUR OWN WAYS.
THIS ISNT BECAUSE OF YOU I JUST FEEL WE BOTH HAVE A LOT GOING
ON WITH WORK AT THE MOMENT AND WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF NEW
PEOPLE COMING INTO OUR LIFES.

WHILST RADING THIS YOU CAN SEE MIKE BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN AND
TRY TEXT RUBY AND CALL HER BUT HE THEN FOUNDS OUT RUBY BLOCKED
HIS PHONE NUMBER.
(INT THERAPY ROOM)

THERPIST
 TELL ME MIKE HOW DID YOU HANDE THE BREAK UP.

MIKE
THAT SAME NIGHT AFTER I GOT THE TEXT SOMETHING JUST BROKE
INSIDE OF ME.

(EXT RIVERSIDE NIGHT)

ARE WE STILL FRIENDS STARTS PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND AND MIKE
LOOKS TO HAVE BROKEN DOWN AFTER WALKING ALONG THE SAME RIVER
SIDE HE DID WITH RUBY EARLIER THAT DAY.

IT BEGINS TO START FLASHING BACK AND FORTH FROM EARLIER THAT

DAY AS MIKE WALKS DOWN. GRADULALLY THE MUSIC GETS MORE INTENSE
AND THAT’S WHEN IT STARTS GETTING FAST BETWEEN CLIPS.

(INT THERAPY ROOM)

THEAPIST
DID ANY CHANGE ABOUT YOUR DAY TO DAY ACTION MIKE? DID YOU ACT
OUT OF CHARACTER IN ANYWAY THAT YOU USALLY WOULDN’T.

MIKE
THERE WAS THIS ONE DAY THAT STANDS OUT AND IT WAS DURING MY
FIRST PEROID IN SCHOOL.

THEAPIST
WAS THIS THE SAME DAY AS TH EVENT?
(INT SCHOOL CLASSROOM)
WALKING INTO SCHOOL MIKE SEES RUBY WALKING AND TALKING WITH A
BOY CALLED MAX WHO SHE TOLD MIKE HE SHOULDN’T EVERY WORRY
ABOUT AND THEY ARE ONLY FRIENDS.

TEXT MESSAGES OF THEM TALKING ABOUT THIS POP UP ON THE SCREEN

AS HE WALKS BEHIND THEM FROM A DISTANCE.

PUPPET STARTS PLAYING IN HIS HEADPHONES AS THIS GOES ON UNTIL

HE FEELS A TAP FROM ONE OF HIS MATES CALLED SAM.

SAM
YO MIKE YOU GOOD BRO
MIKE DOESN’T REPLY TO SAM HR JUST LOOKS AHEAD AND THAT MAKES
SAM REALSIE WHATS GOING ON INFRONT OF HIM.

SAM
WHAT A LYING PRICK!

(INT OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM)

MIKE IS NOW WALKING INTO THIS TH CLASSROOM BY HIMSELF WHEN HE
SEES MAX LOOK AT HIM AND LAUGH. THIS IS WHEN MIKE SNAPS AND
STEPS OF TO MAX WHOS SAT AT HIS DESK.
MIKE OUT OF PURE RAGE SCREAMS
MIKE
FUCK YOU!!!!
MIKE RUNS OVER TO THE DESK AND PUNCHES MAX RIGHT IN THE FACE
WHILST RUBY HAS A VERY GUILTY LOOK ON HER FACE.

MIKE
RUBY YOU LYING BITCH
MIKE RUNS OUT THE CLASSROOM AFTER THIS TO TRY GET AWAY FROM
EVERYON AND THE SITUATION. MIKE THEN SITS DOWN IN A TOLIET
WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS. THIS IS WHEN WE HEARS A GROUP OF
BOYS WALK INTO THE TOILET AND SLIP A NOTE UNDER THE TOLIET
WHICH SAID KILL YOURSELF YOU FREAK.
(INT. THERAPY ROOM)

THERAPIST
DID THE NOTE THEY GIVE YOU PUT ANY IDEAS IN YOUR HEAD.

MIKE
IT WAS THE ONLY THOUGHT I HAD FOR WEEKS

(EXT. ROAD LEADING UP TOO THE COLLEGE)

GONE, GONE? / THANKYOU PLAYS FROM 4:56 IN THE BACKGROUND AS IT
FLASHES BETWWEN WEEKS OF MIKE DOING THE SAME WALK TO SCHOOL
WITH THE SAME EMOTIONLESS FACE ON HIM EVERYTIME. THERE IS ALSO
MANY STUDENTS WALKING PAST HIM EVERYTIME BUT NOT ONE PERSON
COMES OVER TO HIM TO ASK IF HES OKAY.